The Spring 2024 meeting will take place at Marian University on April 5-6, 2024. Matt DeLong will be the local organizer.
Travel Information
Resources:
Marian University directions to campus and campus map
Annotated map of parking lots and buildings we will use.
Parking pass for the parking lots north and southeast of Marian Hall.
Parking and Travel Directions:
The parking pass works for either the parking lot north of Marian Hall (building 21 on the campus map) or southeast from Marian Hall / south of Norman Center (building 25 on the campus map).
Handicap permit spaces – there are handicap spaces in either lot mentioned above.
Accessible building entrances – marked on the campus map with triangle A’s.
if there are no more spots available in the lots mentioned above (particularly for Friday afternoon), there is overflow parking available at the Indy Cycloplex Velodrome. A shuttle runs to campus from this lot based on the schedule available at this link.
Relevant Buildings:
Marian Hall - ICMC orientation, welcome, plenary
E. S. Witchger School of Engineering Center - contributed talks, ICMC workshop
Alumni Hall - banquet, awards, plenary
Section NExT Panel
Recent Technological Advances and the Changing Classroom
Moderator: Tyler Billingsley
Panelists: Amish Mishra, Olga Scrivner, Naama Lewis, Matt Boelkins
Abstract: You may have heard the sentiment that all we need to do mathematics is our mind and something to write with. In fact, many mathematicians still prefer to use chalk to conduct their classes. This classic approach has worked for centuries, but as technology continues to move and develop, we are presented with new resources for educating the next generation of mathematicians. This panel looks to survey some of these advances and spark conversations about the best ways to reach students who are saturated with the technology of today.
Plenary Speakers:
Talea L. Mayo
Weathering the Storm: Using Math to Understand Climate Change Impacts on Hurricane Storm Surge Risk
Talea Mayo is a computational mathematician with expertise in the development and application of numerical hydrodynamic models for coastal hazards. She specializes in hurricane storm surge modeling, including their use for the investigation of climate change impacts on coastal flood risk. She also has expertise in statistical data assimilation methods for state and parameter estimation. She has recently expanded her work to include coastal erosion and the impacts of sustainable resilience efforts. She earned her B.S. in Mathematics from Grambling State University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from The University of Texas at Austin. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Emory University, and was recently awarded the Early-Career Research Fellowship by the National Academies of Sciences Gulf Research Program and the Early Career Faculty Innovator Award by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. She is a fierce advocate of accessible, inclusive science and education of all people, and spends her free time chasing marathon PRs and toddlers.
Matt Boelkins
Interactive, Accessible, Free, and More: how open-source textbooks are changing the teaching and learning of mathematics.
The mathematics community finds itself at the forefront of an exciting movement that seeks to ensure every student has free access to the learning resources they need to be successful. In the last decade: a significant number of authors have made their textbooks and class materials free and open-source; a new publishing language has made creating high-quality, accessible textbooks easier than ever; a new markup language offers instructors and authors the means to generate interactive exercises for students that offer students immediate feedback; and a new learning engineering analytics platform offers textbooks that students can log into and have their work tracked and saved. We’ll briefly discuss the history of the open educational resources movement in mathematics, share a range of exciting recent developments (including the conversion of open-source textbooks to Braille), discuss the promises we see for the future, and point participants to a vibrant, engaging set of resources they can start using immediately with students.
Matt Boelkins is Professor of Mathematics at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1998. He earned his PhD from Syracuse University, MS from Western Washington University, and BS from Geneva College.
Professor Boelkins has been recognized with several teaching-related honors, including the 2016 Michigan Association of State Universities’ Distinguished Professor of the Year and GVSU's Glenn A. Niemeyer Award. Throughout his career, he has been an avid practitioner of the scholarship of teaching and learning of mathematics and has worked to promote its practice through scholarly papers, conference presentations, and the journal PRIMUS (Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies), which he has served as Editor-in-Chief since 2020.
Professor Boelkins is the author or co-author of four textbooks, including the free, open-source Active Calculus (single variable) available at https://activecalculus.org. Active Calculus promotes an active learning approach to calculus through a sequence of student-driven activities, rather than via worked examples. He leads a community of over 500 users of the textbook through an online user group, and he regularly participates in conferences and workshops devoted to free, open-source textbooks.
Deborah Kent
Deborah Kent is a Reader in History of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews. Her research on 19th- and early-20th-century mathematical sciences has involved the circulation of mathematics in periodicals, mathematical biology, and solar eclipse expeditions. During the late 19th-century, high-stakes astronomical expeditions involved a range of individuals and organizations, whose collective experience helped to grow and sustain mathematical communities in the US. Connections forged beneath the Sun’s shadow sustained networks of communication and set precedent for government funding to support mathematical activity. On Monday, 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse will be visible across North America, including directly over Indianapolis. This talk will explore some of the triumphs and tribulations encountered by 19th-century scientists that will provide context for and connection to the 21st-century experience of eclipse totality.
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